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• Bell, Shannon. “‘Energy, Society, and the Environment.’” In Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, edited by Kenneth Alan Gould and Tammy L. Lewis, Third edition., 157–96. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=74918166.
• Harlan, Sharon L., David N. Pellow, and J. Timmons Roberts with Shannon E. Bell, William G. Holt, and Joane Nagel. 2015. “Climate justice and inequality.” In Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle. Oxford University Press. Password Protected at: https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=76007829
• Mann, Michael E. “Chapters 1-3.” In The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, First trade paperback edition., pp 9-62. New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, Hatchette Book Group, 2022.
• Gould, Kenneth Alan, and Tammy L. Lewis, eds. “Excerpt from The Sociological Imagination (1959).” In Thirty Readings in Introductory Sociology, Second edition., 6–13. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=74917666
• Leichenko, Robin and Karen O’Brien. 2019. Climate and Society: Transforming the Future. Cambridge: Polity Press. Ch 1-2 (PP 1-40). Password Protected at: https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=75201989 
• Leichenko, Robin and Karen O’Brien. 2019. Climate and Society: Transforming the Future. Cambridge: Polity Press. Ch 5 (PP 79-100) Password Protected at: https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=74917233
• Malm, Andreas. How to Blow up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire. First edition ppbk. London: Verso, 2021. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=75034469.
• McKinney, Laura. “‘Climate Change.’” In Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, edited by Kenneth Alan Gould and Tammy L. Lewis, Third edition., 271–92. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=75058970.
• Schlosberg, David and Lisette B. Collins. 2014. “From environmental to climate justice: Climate change and the discourse of environmental justice.” In WIREs Climate Change,  5(3) Pp 359-374. Login with BC Library Resources at: https://wires-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/share/ZBIQ4XXMZWXZFTMWFYGJ?target=10.1002/wcc.275 OR Password Protected at: https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=76007833
• *Speth, James Gustav. 2021. They Knew: The US Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis. Cambridge: MIT Press. Ch 2 (PP 41-58) and Ch 8 (PP 133-150) https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=75061154

Websites

• 350. “350.Org: A Global Campaign to Confront the Climate Crisis.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://350.org.
• AdaptNYC. “AdaptNYC Is New York City’s Plan to Adapt to Climate Change.” NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climate.cityofnewyork.us/initiatives/adaptnyc/.
• Climate Justice Alliance. “Home Page – Climate Justice Alliance.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climatejusticealliance.org/.
• Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit. “IPCC Explainer: The Science of Climate Change.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://eciu.net/analysis/infographics/ipcc-science-of-climate-change.
• Fridays For Future. “Fridays For Future Is an International Climate Movement Active in Most Countries and Our Website Offers Information on Who We Are and What You Can Do.” Accessed January 6, 2024. https://fridaysforfuture.org/.
• Greenpeace USA. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/exxon-and-the-oil-industry-knew-about-climate-crisis/exxons-climate-denial-history-a-timeline/
• A timeline of Exxon’s efforts to deceive the public about climate change.
• NASA. “Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current News and Data Streams about Global Warming and Climate Change from NASA.” Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://climate.nasa.gov/.
• United Nations. “Climate Change | UN-Habitat.” UN-Habitat. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://unhabitat.org/topic/climate-change.
• US EPA, OAR. “Climate Change Impacts on the Built Environment.” Overviews and Factsheets. EPA US Environmental Protection Agemcy, October 19, 2022. https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-built-environment.
• The White House, and National Climate Task Force. “President Biden’s Actions to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” The White House. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate/.
• United Nations. “Climate Change | UN-Habitat.” UN-Habitat. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://unhabitat.org/topic/climate-change.
• United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. “Topics: Sustainable Development.” United Nations. Accessed January 6, 2024. https://sdgs.un.org/topics.

Brooklyn College Library Resources

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• Cohen, Bonni, and Jon Shenk. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Paramount Pictures, 2017. https://brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/p/28D3qD7JP
• Gornitz, Vivian, Radley Horton, Daniel A. Bader, Philip Orton, and Cynthia Rosenzweig. 2017. “Coping with Higher Sea Levels and Increased Coastal Flooding in New York City.” In Climate Change in North America, edited by Walter Leal Fiho and Jesse M. Keenan. Pp 209-223. Login with BC Library credentials at: https://link-springer-com.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-53742-9_13
• Latkin, Carl. Lauren Dayton, Haley Bonneau, Ananya Bhaktaram, Jukia Ross, Jessica Pugel, and Megan Weil Latshw. 2023. “Perceived barriers to climate change activism behaviors in the United States among individuals highly concerned about climate change.” Login with BC Library credentials at: In Journal of Prevention, Vol. 44, Pp 389-407. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1007/s10935-022-00704-0
• Leichenko, Robin, and Karen O’Brien. Climate and Society : Transforming the Future. Polity Press, 2019. Login with BC Library credentials at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5790519.
• McNeill, J. R., and Peter Engelke. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945. Harvard University Press, 2016. https://www-degruyter-com.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/document/doi/10.4159/9780674970731/html

Open Resources

• Bohr, Jeremiah. “The Structure and Culture of Climate Change Denial.” Footnotes | American Sociological Association, 2023. https://www.asanet.org/footnotes-article/structure-and-culture-climate-change-denial/.
• Brulle, Robert J. “Networks of Opposition: A Structural Analysis of U.S. Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989–2015.” Sociological Inquiry 91, no. 3 (2021): 603–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12333.
• Carlson, Kathleen, and Sabrina McCormick. “American Adaptation: Social Factors Affecting New Developments to Address Climate Change.” Global Environmental Change 35 (November 1, 2015): 360–67. https://socy2222.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/32160/files/2024/03/AmericanAdaptation.pdf.
• Curry, Rex. “Exxon’s Climate Denial History: A Timeline – Greenpeace USA.” Greenpeace (blog), December 4, 2015. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/exxon-and-the-oil-industry-knew-about-climate-crisis/exxons-climate-denial-history-a-timeline/.
• De Moor, Joost, Michiel De Vydt, Katrin Uba, and Mattias Wahlström. “New Kids on the Block: Taking Stock of the Recent Cycle of Climate Activism.” Social Movement Studies 20, no. 5 (September 3, 2021): 619–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2020.1836617.
• Fisher, Dana R., and Sohana Nasrin. “Shifting Coalitions within the Youth Climate Movement in the US.” Politics and Governance 9, no. 2 (April 28, 2021): 112–23. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i2.3801.
• Garner, Andra J., Michael E. Mann, Kerry A. Emanuel, Robert E. Kopp, Ning Lin, Richard B. Alley, Benjamin P. Horton, Robert M. DeConto, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, and David Pollard. “Impact of Climate Change on New York City’s Coastal Flood Hazard: Increasing Flood Heights from the Preindustrial to 2300 CE.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 45 (November 7, 2017): 11861–66. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703568114.
• Greenfield, Nicole. “Climate Migration.” NRDC, May 9, 2022. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/climate-migration-equity.
• Harlan, Sharon L., David N. Pellow, J. Timmons Roberts, Shannon Bell, William Holt, and Joanne Nagel. “Climate Justice and Inequality.” In Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=kjlKCgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA127&dq= climate+justice+sociology&ots=BZog1XJTgF&sig=Qg_kcVhvHe4jHOqGnegTLjyDZ2M#v=onepage&q=climate%20justice%20sociology&f=false.
• Huang, Lawrence. “Climate Migration 101: An Explainer.” migrationpolicy.org, November 14, 2023. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/climate-migration-101-explainer.
• Leguizamón, Amalia. “‘Treadmill of Production.’” In Handbook on Inequality and the Environment, edited by Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch, and Paul B. Stretesky, 11–27. Elgar Handbooks on Inequality. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781800881136/9781800881136.xml.
• LeQuesne, Theo. “From Carbon Democracy to Carbon Rebellion: Countering Petro-Hegemony on the Frontlines of Climate Justice.” Journal of World-Systems Research 25, no. 1 (March 25, 2019): 15–27. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.905.
• Long, Michael A., Michael J. Lynch, and Paul B. Stretesky, eds. Handbook on Inequality and the Environment. Elgar Handbooks on Inequality. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781800881136/9781800881136.xml.
• Monbiot, George. “Capitalism Is Killing the Planet – It’s Time to Stop Buying into Our Own Destruction.” The Guardian, October 30, 2021, sec. Environment. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction.
• “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report: Conclusions and Recommendations.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1439, no. 1 (2019): 306–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14032.
• Orton, Philip, Ning Lin, Vivien Gornitz, Brian Colle, James Booth, Kairui Feng, Maya Buchanan, Michael Oppenheimer, and Lesley Patrick. “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 4: Coastal Flooding.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1439, no. 1 (2019): 95–114. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14011.
• Pahl, Sabine, Stephen Sheppard, Christine Boomsma, and Christopher Groves. “Perceptions of Time in Relation to Climate Change.” WIREs Climate Change 5, no. 3 (2014): 375–88. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.272.
• Rosenzweig, Bernice, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Lauren McPhillips, Robert Hobbins, Timon McPhearson, Zhongqi Cheng, Heejun Chang, and Yeowon Kim. “Developing Knowledge Systems for Urban Resilience to Cloudburst Rain Events.” Environmental Science & Policy 99 (September 1, 2019): 150–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.05.020.
• Schlosberg, David, and Lisette B. Collins. “From Environmental to Climate Justice: Climate Change and the Discourse of Environmental Justice.” Malden, Mass.? John Wiley & Sons, 2014. https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wcc.275.
• Solecki, William, and Cynthia Rosenzweig. “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 9: Perspectives on a City in a Changing Climate 2008–2018.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1439, no. 1 (March 2019): 280–305. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14017.
• The Core Writing Team, IPCC. “Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report: Summary for Policymakers.” THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, 2023. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf.
• Wilson, Bev. “Urban Heat Management and the Legacy of Redlining.” Journal of the American Planning Association 86, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 443–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2020.1759127.

Videos

Who You. Earth and the American Dream (1992 Documentary), 1992. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vfznw67kAA.